SORE SPOTS 
477 
a dozen treatises to answer: so, take this, with my blessing! 
Love is the law, love under will. 
Fraternally, 
666 
P.S. One further reflection. With all these "sore spots" is 
closely linked the idea of cruelty. I need not touch upon the 
relation of cruelty 
to sex; the theme has been worn 
threadbare. But in religion, note the Bottomless Pit and the 
Eternal Flame; in Buddhism, the eighteen hot and eighteen 
cold Hells, with many another beneath. Hindu eschatology 
has countless Hells; even pedestrian, precise Islam, and the 
calculating Qabalists, each boast of Seven. Again with drugs 
as with insanity, we are confronted constantly with nameless 
terrors; the idea of formlessness, of infinity pervades them 
alike. Consider the man who takes every chance gesture of a 
stranger in the street as a secret sign passed from one of his 
persecutors to another; consider those who refuse food 
because of the mysterious conspiracy to poison them. 
All sanity, which is all Science, is founded upon Limit. We 
must be able to cut off, to define, to measure. Naturally, 
then, their opposites, Insanity and Religion, have for their 
prime 
characteristic, 
the Indefinable, 
Incomprehensible, 
Immeasurable. 
The healing virtue of these words is this: examine the sore 
spot, analyse it, probe it; then disinfection and the Vis 
Medicatrix Naturae, complete the cure. 
I had just finished this when in comes your very pertinent 
"Supplementary" 
Postcard. "Doesn't hypocrisy fit in here, 
somehow?" Indeed it does, my child! 
Corresponding to, and the poison bacillus of, that centre 
of infection, is a Trinity of pure Evil, the total abnegation of 
Thelema . Well known to the psycho-analyst: 
the name 
thereof Shame-Guilt-Fear. 
The Anglo-Saxon or bourgeois 
mentality is soaked therein; and his remedy so far from our